Comments on: Windows 8 promises it’s been tested on its makers firsthttp://www.slashgear.com/windows-8-promises-its-been-tested-on-its-makers-first-28249681/
Feeding Your Gadget and Tech ObsessionsTue, 31 Mar 2015 22:13:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Eleeflyguy43http://www.slashgear.com/windows-8-promises-its-been-tested-on-its-makers-first-28249681/#comment-241908
Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:37:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=249681#comment-241908hmmmm. wonder what “real world” testing means. For Apple, when it comes to call wualit, it means two drunks trsting them in bars. For wifi conmectivit, it is tested only on Apple Airports and never in a situation for switching wifi networks. For Maps, it appears they only tested it in Cuoertino.
Hopefully, Microsoft broadens their testing requirements a bit.
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Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:22:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=249681#comment-241760Stop teasing me. Want want want!!!
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Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:35:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=249681#comment-241627Me too with my MacPro and on a virtual machine it runs smoothly and looks better than Lion OSX by a long shot. I am most certainly a fan.
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Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:34:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=249681#comment-241626Phew, and I thought MSFT would just cross their fingers, hope for the best that Ballmer’s 1 year old nephew could code a whole operating system, while learning how to read.
It’s a sad state of affairs that industry pundits, mere pumpers of Apple stock, have forced MSFT to give such a press release.
Thank goodness America is but one market. Europeans are not so easily dissuaded by Apple stock pumpers or childish game coders.
Given we are told this is the Post-PC world then I think that Windows8X will stand a great chance with W8X phones with maps powered by Nokia and MS Surface made tablets which off for the first time a professional version rather than just another Kindle paradigm. Apple makes a great Kindle in its iPad but for some reason despite many content creators clamoring for a professional, touch sensitive iPad that have just stuck to the same old, same old.

I admit that unlike the majority of people I am a freak for new tech and Windows 8 and Windows 8X offers the first seamless GUI from hard drive, to cloud, and to WWW. They have also dumped the appalling Walt Disney fake leather windows and smiley faced bouncing or wobbling icons, dropped the drop shadows and fake transparencies to give us the most modern OS ever. And I’m basing this on Windows 8 preview running on my MacPro and my wife’s Lumia 900.

For the first time since the iPhone 4 I am looking forward to buying a Nokia Lumia 920 and some kind of MS Surface. I’m also interested in the way HP is incorporating its modular designed hardware into desktops and notebooks that have a touch screen and a keyboard.

The idea put about this week that Intel was not happy about W8 was clearly another attempt to dampen demand. Intel also had to show it had CPUs just ready for this exciting new OS.

Still, it does show how the endless punditry against Windows 8 has had some effect if MSFT had to give such an obvious press release. I predict W8 will launch slowly but word of mouth will make it the largest selling Windows OS since 95. But for the first time MSFT can claim sole ownership as it has borrowed from no one.